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books or papers that have been printed on this subject. Did the parish which gave its name to a rural deanery contain any special residence known as the Deanery ; and if so, did the rural dean live there ? Was the parish that gave its name to an ancient rural deanery the chief or most important parish when the deanery was formed ? Many rural deaneries take their name from what is to-day a small and insignificant parish.

ARTHUR HUSSEY. Tankerton -on-Sea, Kent.

REV. WILLIAM COSENS. This cleric became rector of Monk Farleigh, Wilts. Can any Wiltshire antiquary kindly tell me his dates as such and send me a copy of his epitaph ? T. CANN HUGHES, M.A.

Town Hall, Lancaster.

ROYAL BOROUGH. We are asked if Salford is a Royal Borough. We are unable to answer because we do not know the test. Windsor is called a Royal Borough and Kensington a Royal Parish because of Royal residences within the borough, as at Windsor, or sup- posed to be, though not really, within the parish, as at Kensington. But why is Lea- mington called a Royal Borough ?

EDITOR.

MASSACRE AT SLIGO. In John Wesley's 4 Journal ' (19 May, 1778) is the following :

" I now received an intelligible account of the famous massacre at Sligo. A little before the Revolution, one Mr. Morris, a Popish gentleman, invited all the chief Protestants to an entertain- ment ; at the close of which, on a signal given, the men he had prepared fell upon them, and left not one of them alive. As soon as King William pre- vailed, he quitted Sligo. But venturing thither about twenty years after, supposing no one then knew him, he was discovered, and used according to his deserts."

Where can be found any other account of these matters ? FRANCIS M. JACKSON.

Bowdon.

JOHN STUART MILL'S BIRTHPLACE. Where was John Stuart Mill born ? It is stated in the * Diet. Nat. Biog.' that his father

" in 1804 became engaged to Harriet Burrow, daughter of a widow who managed a lunatic asylum, started by her husband in Hoxton. They were married on 5 June, 1805, and settled in Rodney Terrace, Pentonville, in a house bought by his mother-in-law, for which he paid 501. a year."

In the same publication it is affirmed that " John Stuart Mill, eldest son of James Mill, was born 20 May, 1806, at No. 13, Rodney Street, Pentonville." The street has been renumbered, and presumably the subsidiary names have been abolished, but I cannot find

a row of twelve or more houses which would correspond with Rodney Terrace, which was probably the original name of the place where Mill was born. JOHN HEBB.

SIR FRANCIS JONES, LORD MAYOR OF LON- DON, 1620-21. Mr. Cokayne, in 'The Lord Mayors and Sheriffs of London, 1601 -25, 'states that this Mayor married (1) about 1595 Ellen, who was buried 11 Nov., 1606, and (2) Jane, who survived him. Can any of your corre- spondents furnish further particulars respect- ing these wives? I have always understood that the surviving one bore a different Chris- tian name. E. C.

picked up a little book entitled * Coronation Anecdotes ; or, Select and Interesting Frag- ments of English Coronation Ceremonies.' The author is " Giles Gossip, Esq." ; the im- print and date, " London, printed for Robert Jennings, in the Poultry, 1823." Who is " Giles Gossip " ? Is the account of the corona- tion of George IV. accurate? It fills more than one-third of the book, which contains 334 pages. CHARLES HIATT.
 * CORONATION ANECDOTES.' I recently

TASBOROUGH, co. SUFFOLK. Wanted a pedigree of this family, showing the marriage (seventeenth century) of Paul Cope with one of the family. What was the coat of arms ?

E. E. COPE.

Sulhamstead, Berks.

CHESELDEN, RADCLIFFE, AND PRIDMORE. William Cheselden, born at Sornerby. Leices- tershire, 19 October, 1688, became a celebrated surgeon ; died at Bath, April, 1752, and lies in the burial-ground at Chelsea Hospital ; will proved 27 April, 1752 (P.C.C. 90 Bettes- worth). He married Deborah Knight, who died June, 1754, given in error as 1764 in
 * Diet. Nat. Biog.' ; will with one codicil

g*oved 12 June, 1754 (P.C.C. 162 Pinfold), er only child, Wilhelmina Deborah, died December, 1763, as the widow of Charles Cotes, M.P. for Tarn worth, who died 21 March, 1748. Ann, born 1764, who is said to have

married Radcliffe, is stated to have been

of the branch of the family of Cheselden of Somerby, and I am told that the family of Pridmore was also allied. A Jane Pridmore married; 23 June, 1814, John Ellington Jones, surgeon, of Oakham, one of the coroners for the county of Rutland ; he died 2 November, 1854, aged eighty-one years. Who now represents the family of Cheselden of Somerby 1 Can any one give the link with the family of Pridmore? I have before me the pedigrees of Cheselden in the visitations